2025 – Page 72 – The Portland Press Herald

After devastating flood, Jay leads the way on climate change preparation

by Joe Charpentier December 14, 2025December 15, 2025

Jay is part of a state program that is helping hundreds of communities build resilience to rising water levels and more powerful storms.

Maine, News

Toy Fund is a light in the dark for Maine families escaping domestic violence

by Press Herald staff report December 14, 2025December 13, 2025

Parents who have recently left abusive relationships are seeking help so they can bring much-needed holiday joy to their children.

Letters

Support the Medicare for All Act | Letter

December 14, 2025December 11, 2025

Thank you to Drs. Jeffrey Barkin and Daniel Bryant for their excellent opinion pieces about our health care system in recent Sunday editions. Support for Medicare for All is strong among patients as well as health care professionals. A recent Data for Progress poll finds that 65% of all Americans support a Medicare for All […]

Letters

Portland’s warming shelter should allow for later departures | Letter

December 14, 2025December 11, 2025

We can all agree that it’s unfortunate, but evidently unavoidable at the moment, I guess, that the warming shelter for the homeless is located way out on Riverside Street, far from where the heaviest concentration of homeless are. But why is it that people are turned out of the shelter at 6:30 a.m.? Early morning […]

Letters

Support the work of service animals — leave your pets at home | Letter

December 14, 2025December 11, 2025

For people with disabilities, navigating shared public spaces is difficult enough as it is.

Op-eds, Opinion

Merry Christmas, (months-old) Baby | Victoria Hugo-Vidal

by Victoria Hugo-Vidal December 14, 2025December 15, 2025

I give you my baby-focused holiday gift guide.

Op-eds, Opinion

Oversight of congressional stock trading is tricky — and necessary | Jim Fossel

by Jim Fossel December 14, 2025December 10, 2025

Banning members of Congress and their spouses or dependents from owning stocks isn’t a solution, but it’s a decent start.

Letters

Exemplary investigative reporting on Maine school boards | Letter

December 14, 2025December 11, 2025

Kudos to Emily Duggan, the Maine Sunday Telegram and the Kennebec Journal for their exemplary investigative report (Nov. 23) on the parents’ rights movement and the intrusion of outside voices and money into the very fabric of life in Maine. That forces from outside Maine can try to influence local school board elections, encourage disruption […]